Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

Alan Watts

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

Alan Moore

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

Alan J. Pakula

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

Alan Jay Lerner

An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

Alain Prost

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

Al Michaels

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

Al Ries

Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.

Al Ries

The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.

Aristotle

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

E. B. White

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

Donald Byrd

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

Delmore Schwartz

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

Dan Millman

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

Malcolm Bradbury

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

Elizabeth Gilbert

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

Leonhard Euler

Now I will have less distraction.

Nik Wallenda

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

Tony Sirico

I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.

Alex Gonzalez

A lot of gangsters used to be walking up and down the street, up and down, up and down. You don't see that anymore. ... It's quiet.

Lil Wayne

I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.

Michael K. Williams

I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.

Jim Sheridan

I just knew his world. It was like the world I grew up in in Dublin. I knew gangsters and drugs and I was even in a band. It was like he was a long lost brother.